Who we are.
“LionTree started on a few simple premises: bold vision, trusted relationships, strategic execution and operational excellence.”
Founded in 2012, LionTree is an independent investment and merchant bank with deep roots in the media, technology, communications, consumer, and creative industries.
Our thematic focus and expertise provide us with a differentiated perspective to help our relationships unlock growth and transformation. We pair deep industry expertise with principal capital and long-term partnership, staying involved after the deal closes, connecting people, sharing ideas, and investing alongside the leaders we back.
We are firmly planted in our core fundamentals as we envision a future without limits.
We create value through insight, trust, and execution.
Grounded in sector expertise and an entrepreneurial mindset, we help clients uncover meaningful opportunity amid changing market dynamics.
Our commitment to best-in-class execution fosters excellence across the organization.
Our integrated products complement one another to bring value to clients.
We earn trust through curiosity, preparation, humility, and follow-through.
We grow when our clients grow.
We think in decades, not deal cycles.
Key milestones.
Capital meets purpose.
LionTree’s philanthropy is built on a simple belief: the greatest impact happens at the intersections, where education meets enterprise, where art meets diplomacy, and where heritage meets hope.
Guided by Chairman and CEO Aryeh B. Bourkoff, we deploy the relationships, judgment, and convening power built over two decades at the center of global media, technology, and finance. We make introductions that would not otherwise happen, convene leaders across sectors that rarely share a table, and lend strategic counsel to the institutions we support.
Our giving is guided by the question: where can LionTree make a difference in advancing the interconnectedness of our world?
University of California, San Diego · TEAK Fellowship · Institute for Citizens & Scholars · The Opportunity Network · Street Child · The King’s Trust · Child Mind Institute · Richard J. Caron Foundation · American Cancer Society · Carnegie Hall · Royal Academy of Arts (RA America) · Royal Opera House · Atlantic Theater Company · Artolution · Can Art Change The World (JR)
UJA-Federation of New York · Simon Wiesenthal Center · Jewish National Fund · The Rabbi Sacks Legacy · Friends of United Hatzalah · 613 Fellows & The Camel (Harvard Chabad) · Futures Ignite · Patterson Houses Community Center
Sheba Medical Center · Council on Foreign Relations · National Medal of Honor Museum
Hebrew Free Loan Society, alongside financial-capability partnerships woven through our education portfolio
The Paley Center for Media · SeriesFest · Café Joyeux · Why Not You Foundation · U.S. Ski & Snowboard Foundation · National Ability Center · We Are Family Foundation